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Dark Gaia's Minions
First seen: Sonic Unleashed (2008)

Dark Gaia's Minions, known as Dark Gaia no Shimobe (ダークガイアのしもべ) in Japan, are creatures faced as enemies by Sonic the Werehog during Sonic Unleashed. These supernatural monsters are fragments of the hyper-energy organism Dark Gaia, which fell apart at the beginning of Sonic Unleashed. Dr. Eggman used the power of the Chaos Emeralds to crack open Sonic's world in an effort to wake the beast and harness its energies, but this premature awakening rendered Dark Gaia unable to support itself, instead collapsing into innumerable Dark Gaia minions.

Description

Bizarre, varied creatures of shadow-black and multicoloured neon, the Dark Gaia monsters only come out at night. Ranging from tiny Rex and Dark Fright pests to towering, destructive Big Mothers and Titans, these foes attack Sonic in night-time levels. In addition, they terrorise the human population on a psychological level, directly inducing despair and negative emotions, even going so far as to posess townsfolk on occasion. The larger minions, from the Nightmare upwards, tend to have stretchy, extensible limbs to grab at their foes.

Sonic the Werehog is a partial Dark Gaia monster himself, absorbing a significant dose of Dark Gaia's energy via feedback from Eggman's Chaos Energy Cannon. This contributes to his fearsome night-time appearance, as well as granting him the characteristic stretchy arms.

Defeating the minions in the X-Box/PS3 versions releases a glowing haze - which Chip calls "Dark Gaia Force" - that increases the Werehog's Unleash Gauge, along with the Chaos Orbs - yellow diamonds that increase Sonic's EXP.

In the PS2/Wii versions, the enemies release Orbs instead, that come in three variants with three different purposes, from which the Blue Orbs serve the role of the "Dark Gaia Force" from the X-Box/PS3 versions. On the other hand, Dark Gaia Force is the name given to the EXP, converted from the Red Orbs. The Green Orbs restore fractions of the Health Bar just like Rings, but don't add to the ring count and restore more health each.

Eggman himself is responsible for getting rid of most of the Dark Gaia minions, hatching a plan in the middle of Unleashed to attract them all together in order to rebuild Dark Gaia as a single entity. When Perfect Dark Gaia is defeated and the beast sent back to sleep at the end of the game, it has re-absorbed all its fragments.

Quotes

Step One: Patterns
Night stage foes all have their own behavior patterns. Knowing those can make even tough enemies easy. Try throwing a crate at one of those nimble killer bees!

Secret Document 2 - "Spot the Enemy's Weakness!", PS2/Wii versions of Sonic Unleashed

Step Two: Elements
Fire Masters are bathed in flame, Lightning Masters freely wield bolts of electricity, but use those traits against them with a little water, and they'll be all washed up!

Secret Document 4 - "Exploit the Enemy's Weakness!", PS2/Wii versions of Sonic Unleashed

List of Dark Gaia's Minions

In other media

Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie comics)

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